Quotes By Leonardo Da Vinci

Nature never breaks her own laws.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.